Culture definitely includes language, and language remains one of the biggest barriers to a truly global culture. Anglosphere yes. Francophonia, yes again. Hispanosphere, Hindusphere, and the rest of them, yes, yes, yes. But great big single Everyonesphere, not quite yet, I'm afraid.
Instapundit links this afternoon to a google translation of a Die Zeit piece. I realise that most of you have surely seen such stuff many times before, but to me, as it happens, this is a first, and maybe to a few of you also. If my experience is typical, the translation link actually does the job again, each time you follow it. Odd. Anyway, here is what I got for the first two paragraphs.
In this, the real world the USA are to be defeated at present not. Therefore the Amerikahasser invents itself approximately around the globe simply another world. Everything in front the Iraqi regime, which is under the impacts of the allied troops in the last courses. That US troops penetrated in Bagdad, a "propaganda lie" is, bruestete itself an Iraqi "information Minister" on weekend. In reality the aggressors of the Iraqis are struck into the escape and "crushed"; one the US Besatzer on the Bagdader airport "slaughtered".The offering no prospects the situation of the regime, the more zuegelloser and savages become its propagandistic Fantasien. The boldness, with which the communist manifestos reality is denied and turned in the opposite, certainly probably hardly rises from the almost insanity; it is calculated obvious. The Fantasmen of the Baathisten is purposefully directed toward the broad Arab public, which wants to betaeuben their pain over the own faint by conceited victory messages. We experience a frightening further schraubendrehung in the collective Psychose of the Arab nationalism: Still during the current events material history is replaced by a mythische Gegenwelt. Thus, if disappearing the regime Saddam Husseins will not have sometime to be denied no more, nevertheless the impression clinging to remain, it supplied a heroischen fight connected for the Americans with devastating losses to the USA with.
More research is needed, as they say. But, equally important point, it's definitely a start. I mean, you do get the gist of it. The Everyonesphere can't be all that far away.
